What famous scientist should I do a research biography over?

December 9, 2009 by famous · 5 Comments
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mohdafication asked:

There are so many famous scientist…but I have no idea who to do my research biography over. What do you guys recommend and what was was he famous for discovering?

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5 Responses to “What famous scientist should I do a research biography over?”
  1. juliasiezure says:
    December 12, 2009 at 6:49 am

    Nikola Tesla!
    Very interesting man. I’m not sure I spelled his first name correctly, though. [who]

  2. smcgilli says:
    December 13, 2009 at 4:42 am

    2 of my favortites…

    Issac Newton -

    Louis Pasteur – [who]

  3. Tash says:
    December 14, 2009 at 1:04 am

    I would do Marie Curie. There’s a lot of stuff on here. She’s won a lot of stuff too so if you have to do a long paper it’s always good to add stuff like that. I did a paper on her but I don’t remember what she did. It was something like find a new substance. It’s would be really easy to find stuff like that out though. [who]

  4. jonmcn49 says:
    December 17, 2009 at 4:36 am

    All the people above me have submitted the names of fine scientists, but there is not one scientist mentioned on their lists that is even worth to loose thew sandal of the scientist I am to propose. Charles Robert Darwin was one of the top five scientists of all time Easily among Newton, Einstein And Curie. [who]

  5. Centaur says:
    December 17, 2009 at 7:26 pm

    How about Ibn al-Haytham? He was an eleventh-century Muslim scholar who overcame bouts of mental illness to develop the scientific method.

    Born in Basra (located in what is now Iraq) in 965, Ibn al-Haytham first studied theology, trying unsuccessfully to resolve the differences between the Shi’ah and Sunnah sects. He turned his attention to the works of the ancient Greeks, including Aristotle, Euclid, and Archimedes. He was the first person to apply algebra to geometry, founding the branch of mathematics known as analytic geometry.

    He traveled to Egypt to build a dam on the Nile, failed, and ended up imprisoned in Cairo for ten years. During this time he developed the idea of systematically testing hypotheses with experiments—the core of the scientific method. He wrote more than 200 books and treatises in his lifetime.

    A good biography is “Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist” by Bradley Steffens. You can find reviews of the book and a sample chapter at [who]

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